Download or read book The Ledger written by David Kilcullen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson, of America's role backing the anti-Soviet mujahideen. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' With no support for Afghanistan after that war, the vacuum was filled by the Taliban and bin Laden. The Ledger assesses the West's similarly failed approach to Afghanistan after 9/11-in military, diplomatic, political and developmental terms. Dr David Kilcullen and Dr Greg Mills are uniquely placed to reflect backwards and forwards on the Afghan conflict: they worked with the international mission both as advisers and within the Arg, and they have considerable experience of counterinsurgency and stabilization operations elsewhere in the world. Here these two experts show that there is plenty of blame to go around when explaining the failure to bring peace to Afghanistan after 9/11. The signs of collapse were conveniently ignored, in favor of political narratives of progress and success. Yet for Afghans, the war and its geopolitical effects are not over because NATO is gone-Afghanistan remains globally connected through digital communications and networks. This vital book explains why and where failings in Afghanistan happened, warning against exceptionalist approaches to future peacebuilding missions around the globe.
Download or read book The Ledger and the Chain written by Joshua D. Rothman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade—and its role in the making of America. Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men—who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South—were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States. In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation.
Download or read book Ledger written by Jane Hirshfield and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pivotal book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world's current and future fate—"Some of the most important poetry in the world today" (Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times Magazine). Ledger's pages hold the most important work yet by Jane Hirshfield, one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. From the already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance ("Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw"), Hirshfield's poems inscribe a registry, both personal and communal, of our present-day predicaments. They call us to deepened dimensions of thought, feeling, and action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering, acutely and tenderly, the crises of refugees, justice, and climate. They consider "the minimum mass for a whale, for a language, an ice cap," recognize the intimacies of connection, and meditate upon doubt and contentment, a library book with previously dog-eared corners, the hunger for surprise, and the debt we owe this world's continuing beauty. Hirshfield's signature alloy of fact and imagination, clarity and mystery, inquiry, observation, and embodied emotion has created a book of indispensable poems by a "modern master" (The Washington Post).
Download or read book Ledger Book written by Elegant Simple Trackers and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ledger book is great for tracking finances and transactions. It can be used for personal, small business or for home-based businesses. This book includes date, description, account, income, expenses and Totals. 110 pages and size of the book is 7.4 inch x 9.7 inch. Simple book for recording transactions.
Download or read book The War Ledger written by A.F.K. Organski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War Ledger provides fresh, sophisticated answers to fundamental questions about major modern wars: Why do major wars begin? What accounts for victory or defeat in war? How do victory and defeat influence the recovery of the combatants? Are the rules governing conflict behavior between nations the same since the advent of the nuclear era? The authors find such well-known theories as the balance of power and collective security systems inadequate to explain how conflict erupts in the international system. Their rigorous empirical analysis proves that the power-transition theory, hinging on economic, social, and political growth, is more accurate; it is the differential rate of growth of the two most powerful nations in the system—the dominant nation and the challenger—that destabilizes all members and precipitates world wars. Predictions of who will win or lose a war, the authors find, depend not only on the power potential of a nation but on the capability of its political systems to mobilize its resources—the "political capacity indicator." After examining the aftermath of major conflicts, the authors identify national growth as the determining factor in a nation's recovery. With victory, national capabilities may increase or decrease; with defeat, losses can be enormous. Unexpectedly, however, in less than two decades, losers make up for their losses and all combatants find themselves where they would have been had no war occurred. Finally, the authors address the question of nuclear arsenals. They find that these arsenals do not make the difference that is usually assumed. Nuclear weapons have not changed the structure of power on which international politics rests. Nor does the behavior of participants in nuclear confrontation meet the expectations set out in deterrence theory.
Download or read book Accounting Ledger Book written by Elegant Simple Trackers and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Accounting ledger book is great for tracking finances and transactions. It can be used for personal, small business or for home-based businesses. This book includes date, description, account, Payment (Debit), Deposit (Credit) and Totals. 110 pages and size of the book is 7.4 inch x 9.7 inch. Simple book for basic book keeping of transactions.
Download or read book Women and Ledger Art written by Richard Pearce and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although ledger art has long been considered a male art form, Women and Ledger Art calls attention to the extraordinary achievements of four contemporary female Native artists—Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa), Colleen Cutschall (Oglala Lakota), Linda Haukaas (Sicangu Lakota), and Dolores Purdy Corcoran (Caddo). The book examines these women's interpretations of their artwork and their thoughts on tribal history and contemporary life.
Download or read book Ledger Book written by Bookkeeping Tracker Press and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ledger book is great for tracking finances and transactions. It can be used for personal, small business or for home-based businesses. This book includes date, description, account, income, expenses and Totals. 100 pages and size of the book is 8.5 inch x 11 inch.
Download or read book Rage written by Jonathan Maberry and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times Bestselling author (creator of the Netflix series V Wars), Jonathan Maberry comes the first in a brand new series featuring Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International. A small island off the coast of Korea is torn apart by a bioweapon that drives everyone—men, women, and children—insane with murderous rage. The people behind the attack want Korea reunified or destroyed. No middle ground. No mercy. Soon Japan, China, and the United States are pushed to the brink of war, while terrorists threaten to release the rage bioweapon in a way of pure destructive slaughter. Joe Ledger leads his newly formed band of international troubleshooters in their first mission to stop the terror cell, fighting alongside agents from North and South Korea. With the lives of billions at stake, Ledger is willing to bring his own brand of terror to this frightening new war.
Download or read book Beatrice s Ledger written by Ruth R. Martin and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and moving story about family, courage, and the power of education Ruth remembers the day the sheriff pulled up in front of her family's home with a white neighbor who claimed Ruth's father owed her recently deceased husband money. It was the early 1940s in Jim Crow South Carolina, and even at the age of eleven, Ruth knew a Black person's word wasn't trusted. But her father remained calm as he waited on her mother's return from the house. Ruth's mother had retrieved a gray book, which she opened and handed to the sheriff. Satisfied by what he saw, the sheriff and the woman left. Ruth didn't know what was in that book, but she knew it was important. In Beatrice's Ledger, Ruth R. Martin brings to life the stories behind her mother's entries in that well-worn ledger, from financial transactions to important details about her family's daily struggle to survive in Smoaks, South Carolina, a small town sixty miles outside of Charleston. Once the land of plantations, slavery, and cotton, by the time Ruth was born in 1930 many of the plantations were gone but the cotton remained. Ruth's family made a living working the land, and her father owned a local grist and sawmill used by Black and white residents in the area. The family worked hard, but life was often difficult, and Ruth offers rich descriptions of the sometimes-perilous existence of a Black family living in rural South Carolina at mid-century. But there was joy as well as hardship, and readers will be drawn into the story of life in Smoaks. Enriched with public records research and interviews with friends and family still living in Smoaks, Martin weaves history, humor, and family lore into a compelling narrative about coming of age as a Black woman in the Jim Crow South. Martin recounts her journey from Smoaks to Tuskegee Institute and beyond. It is a story about the power of family; about the importance of the people we meet along the way; and about the place we call home.
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Download or read book Accounting Ledger Book written by Ace Accounting and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Accounting Ledger Book designed for efficient and easy tracking of finances and transactions. Inside this 'Accounting Ledger Book' you will find: Date, description, account, Payment (Debit), Deposit (Credit) and Totals. 120 pages Double-sided Non-perforated Size: 8.5 inches x 11 inches The perfect notebook to track finances for your personal expenses OR business! Click the BUY button now for easy money management!
Download or read book Accounting Ledger written by Red Tiger Press and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting Ledger This 8.5 x 11 in simple accounting ledger notebook contains 120 pages. Perfect for tracking income and expenses and maintaining accurate business records. Size: 8.5 x 11 in. 120 Pages Premium matte finish soft cover Printed on white paper
Download or read book Edward Hopper written by Deborah Lyons and published by Schirmer Mosel. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his ledger books, Edward Hopper recorded paintings made and sold, accountings made and payments received, materials used and subjects considered. Juxtaposing selected ledger pages with reproductions of the respective paintings, this original Schirmer/Mosel publication documents the making of and fate of Hopper's most revered works.
Download or read book Accounting Ledger Book Paper written by Leo Keeping and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting Ledger Books for Bookkeeping 110 pages double-sided non-perforated Size: 8.0 inches x 10 inches Date, Account, Memo, Debit, Credit, Balance fields Let Tracking !!!
Download or read book Accounting Ledger Book Mini written by Clarence Edgehill and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple, pocket size accounting ledger for on-the-go home and business accounting. Specification 4 × 6 inches / 10.2 × 15.2 cm 100 pages 18 listings per page Matte cover Perfect bound Headings Date Details Income Expenses Total
Download or read book Visual Language written by DWAYNE. WILCOX and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to feature Dwayne Wilcox's incredible ledger drawings of Native life.
